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First published 1991. This subseries contains one review.

The Unservile State Group, in which George Watson served as Editor, was a collective of academics committed to studying and promoting Liberal political values. This series contains three subseries: general documentation pertaining to the group; George Watson's correspondence with members and associated figures; and the correspondence of the Secretary, Bernard Jennings.

This subseries contains various documents pertaining to the Unservile State Group and associated groups and projects, including minutes, publication information and cuttings. A small group of other political documents has been appended. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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COLLECTION INFORMATION

Description by 'J.B.' of the contents of an earlier version of the papers
'Manuscript Collection': George Watson's description of the papers (25 May 1978)
Leaflet describing the Archives of Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (presumably considered as a potential depository)

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'UNSERVILE STATE, 1953-1991'

Retrospective article by George Watson, in typescript and published form (22 February 1991)

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MEMBERSHIP AND CONTACTS

Membership lists
List of Liberal peers (January 1966)
Contact details of European liberal figures
List of academic libraries in Eastern Europe

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POLICY STATEMENTS

Unservile State Group
National Campaign on Behalf of the Low-income Groups
The Acton Society Trust

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AGENDAS AND MINUTES

10 February 1956 minutes
22-23 June 1956 minutes
27 July 1956 minutes

17 May 1957 agenda
17 May 1957 minutes
28 August 1957 minutes

10 May 1968 minutes

18 May 1970 minutes

4 March 1971 minutes
19 May 1971 minutes

7 December 1972 agenda

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Memorandum: 'The Liberal Party and Co-ownership' (April 1954)

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PUBLICATIONS

'The projected Liberal "Yellow Book"' (circa July 1953)
'Memorandum on a Projected Book on British Liberalism in the Mid-century' (July 1954)
Arthur Holt, pamphlet suggestions (undated)
Memorandum of pamphlet suggestions (undated)
'Liberty in the Welfare State' comments (1956)

'The Unservile State' copyright agreements (1956)
'The Unservile State' contributor information (book published 25 July 1957)

'Radical Alternative' progress report (30 August 1961)
'Radical Alternative' preface (May 1962)
'Radical Alternative' revised prelims
'Radical Alternative' notes on contributors

Notes pertaining to Edwin George West, perhaps the second edition (1970) of his 'Education and the State' (1965)

University of Leeds press release about The Elliott Dodds Lecture (24 January 1972)

Richard Moore and Christine Morgan, 'The Liberals in Europe' pamphlet (1974)

Samuel Brittan and Barry Riley, 'A People's Stake in North Sea Oil' pamphlet (1980)

Photocopy of Christopher Mayhew's 'Liberals, Social Democrats and Defence' pamphlet (1984)

Michael Meadowcroft, 'Dear David, Thanks, Yours Neil' (20 May 1990)

Report by 'Nick' on an unknown pamphlet or article

List of the Unservile State Papers pamphlets

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Three sheets of Unservile State Group stationery

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CUTTINGS

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Folder labelled 'USG Agendas Addresses etc'

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OTHER POLITICAL DOCUMENTS

'Co-ownership in Industry' (April 1952)
'Co-ownership at Work' (October 1952)

'Books for Poland: A report to the Secretary of the Writers and Publishers Committee for European Cooperation', to which is attached a list of pertinent Polish addresses (1957)

Copied pages from Frank O'Gorman's 'Voters, Patrons and Parties' (1989)

Derek Beales, 'The Electorate before and after 1832' (14 October 1991)

Vote count for the 2005 Parliamentary Council Election in Cambridge

First published 1992. This subseries contains one review.

Bernard Jennings served as Secretary of the Unservile State Group, and his collection of relevant correspondence, presumably passed to George Watson, is represented here. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list of correspondents follows.

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(N.B. These files representing individual correspondents are preceded in the sequence by a file containing event invitations and groups of replies from various people.)

AIREDALE, Oliver
ARMITAGE, John
ARNOLD, Ron

BEAUMONT, Timothy Wentworth
BELOFF, Max
BRITTAN, Samuel

CRANSTON, Maurice

DALE, Tom
DAVIDSON, James
DAWES, Margaret
DEIGHTON, H S
DODDS, Elliott
DÛCHENE, François

GRIMOND, Jo

HARVEY, Heather
HUTTON, Graham

JOHNSTON, Russell

MEADOWCROFT, Michael
MICKLEM, Nathaniel
MIRFIN, Derick
MOORE, Richard

RAVETZ, Jerome
ROWNTREE, B Philip

SUMERLING, B

THOMPSON, John

WADE, William Oulton, Lord Wade
WAINWRIGHT, Richard
WATSON, George
WEST, Edwin
WHITELEY, Kath
WILES, Peter
WISEMAN, Jack
WOLFERS, John

This subseries contains Watson's correspondence with members of the Unservile State Group as well as associated figures; on occasion files contain, per Watson's grouping, correspondence about, as well as to or from, the person named. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list of correspondents follows.

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ALLEN, George
ARON, Raymond
ASHDOWN, Paddy

BARNES, Rosie
BEITH, Alan
BONHAM-CARTER, Mark
BRIGGS, Asa
BRITTAN, Samuel
BRUNNER, John
BUCHAN, Alistair
BUSH, Ian E
BUTLER, David

CAMERON, J M
CARR, Edward Hallett
CHILVER, Sylvia
CLARK, William
CLARKE, Norman
CONQUEST, Robert
COWIE, Harry
CRANSTON, Maurice
CROOME, Honor
CROUCH, Colin
CURLE, Adam C T W

DAHRENDORF, Ralf
DAY, Robin
DEIGHTON, Herbert Stanley
DENNISON, S R
DODDS, Elliott
DUNCAN, Dennis H

ELTIS, Walter

FOGARTY, Michael P
FOOT, Michael
FORBES, Bryan
FURTH, C A

GOODHART, A L
GRENSTED, L W
GRIGG, John Edward Poynder, Lord Altrincham
GRIMOND, Jo

HAGUE, Douglas
HAMSON, C J
HARVEY, Heather
HARTLEY, Anthony
HERBERT, S Mervyn
HIBBS, John
HILL, Evelyn
HOLFORD, William
HOLLINGWORTH, Clare
HOLLIS, Christopher
HONORÉ, Tony
HOOSER, H Emlyn
HUGH JONES, E M
HUTTON, Graham
HYDE, H Montgomery

JAMES, Walter
JEBB, Hubert Miles Gladwyn, Lord Gladwyn
JEFFREYS, Harold
JENKINS, Roy
JENNINGS, Bernard
JEWKES, John
JOHNSON, Paul

KASER, Michael
KEITH-LUCAS, Brian
KENNEDY, Ludovic

LAMB, Richard
LASKY, Melvin J
LE FOE, Dominic
LEVIN, Bernard
LEYLAND, Norman Harrison
LIDDELL HART, Basil Henry
LORT-PHILLIPS, Patrick

MacCALLUM SCOTT, John
MacDONALD, John
MACKAY, Simon Brooke, Baron Tanlaw
MacKENZIE, Norman
MACKIE, George Yull
MADARIAGA, Salvador de
MADDEN, Freddie
MAITLAND, Patrick
MARTIN, David
McCALLUM, Ronald Buchanan
MEADE, J S
MEADOWCROFT, Michael
MICKLEM, Nathaniel
MIRFIN, Derick
MOORE, Richard
MORGAN, Christine
MORGAN, E
MORPURGO, Jack
MORRELL, William B
MOSER, Claus Adolf
MOUGHTON, Barry
MURDOCH, Iris

NAIRN, Ian
NEWBY, Donald
NICHOLAS, H G
NICOLSON, Nigel

PAIGE, Duncan
PAISH, F W
PATON, Alan
PEACOCK, Alan T
PETERSON, A D C
POLANYI, Michael
POLLITT, Brian
POWELL, Dilys
PRESTON, Phyllis
PRYCE-JONES, Alan

RICE, Valerie
ROSE, Richard
ROWNTREE, B Philip
RUSSELL, Conrad Sebastian Robert, Lord Russell

SADLEIR, Michael
SALTER, Frank R
SAMUEL, Godfrey
SANDFORD, Cedric
SEEAR, Nancy
SELDON, Arthur
SELF, Peter
SHONFIELD, Andrew
SKELSEY, Philip
SLOMAN, Peter
SMITH, Trevor
SPARROW, John
SPRECKLEY, David R A
STEEL, David M S

TAVERNE, Dick
TEMPLE SMITH, Maurice
THOMAS, W Harford
THOMSON, David
THOMSON, John
THORPE, Jeremy
TRILLING, Lionel

USBORNE, Henry

VINCENT, John R

WADE, Henry William Rawson
WADE, William Oulton, Lord Wade
WAINWRIGHT, Richard
WARD PERKINS, Neville
WATKINS, Philip
WAYNE, Francis
WEST, E G
WHEATCROFT, G S A
WILES, Peter
WILLIAMS, Raymond
WINT, Guy
WISEMAN, Jack

First published 1967. This subseries contains research material, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Photocopies and offprints of research material

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CORRESPONDENCE

BARTON, Anne
BUXTON, John

KLEIN, Holger M

LONSDALE, Roger

MEYER, Anne-Marie

STERNFELD, Fred W

THOMSON, Patricia
TRAPP, Joseph Burney

WIND, Edgar

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REVIEWS

First published 1994. This subseries contains research material, a memorandum of agreement, correspondence and reviews; it opens with a copied transcript of Lord Acton's 'Notes for the History of Liberty', and correspondence arranging for Cambridge University Library to make a further copy. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Copied transcript of Lord Acton's 'Notes for the History of Liberty', accompanied by correspondence between George Watson and the Cambridge University Library

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George Watson's invitation to his talk for the Acton Society on 'Acton and the Language of Politics' (23 November 1979)

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Four posters for George Watson's 1992 Sandars Lectures on 'The Library of Lord Acton'

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Photocopies and offprints of research material

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Two copies of the memorandum of agreement between George Watson and Scolar Press

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CORRESPONDENCE

ACTON, Edward
ACTON, S J
ALTHOLZ, Josef L

BAILYN, Bernard
BATTESTIN, Ruthe
BEALES, Derek Edward Dawson
BUTTERFIELD, Herbert

CEADEL, E B
CONZELMUS, Victor

DANGÉ, François

FARROW, Nigel
FASNACHT, Ruth
FOX, Peter K

GASKELL, Philip

HILL, Roland
HYAM, Ronald

KELLIHER, William Hilton

LEE, Brian North
LINEHAN, Peter A
LOOSE, John
LOWE, David K
LYON-DALBERG-ACTON, Richard Gerald

MATTHEW, Henry Colin Gray
McCONICA, James

NAUTH, Dorothee
NURSER, John S

OWEN, Arthur

PARKER, G
PARSONS, Phyllis

RATCLIFFE, Frederick William
ROBSON, Robert
ROGERS, Malcolm

SCHOFIELD, Malcolm
SIMMONS, J S G
SPEIDEL, Annie
SWIRE, Rhoderick

THOMPSON, C R

WALEY. Daniel
WALLACE, Janet
WELLS, John
WILLIAMS, R T
WOODHOUSE, Christine
WOODRUFF, Mia

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REVIEWS

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Folder labelled 'Lord Acton'

First published in the 'National Review', 31 December 1995. This subseries contains two copies of the published article, and correspondence. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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ASHDOWN, Paddy

BOST, Warren Vincent
BRIEFER, Paul

HALL, Irving
HARRISS, Clement Lowell
HUTCHISON, John

KING, Richard

LIPKES, Jeff
LLEWELLYN, John

O’SULLIVAN, John

PENOT, Dominique
PERRY, Mike W

TAQUEY, Antony

WALTERS, Robert E

First published 1998. This subseries contains research material, readers' reports, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Photocopies and cuttings of research material

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Reports from two readers

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Mock-up of the book's back cover, with manuscript corrections

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CORRESPONDENCE

BERLIN, Isaiah
BOUCÉ, Paul-Gabriel
BRINK, Adrian
BROWN, L Neville

CALINESCU, Bogdan
CANTOR, Paul A
CORE, George
CROOK, John

DASGUPTA, Partha
DE GIORGIS, Hugues

FAVIER, A
FLEW, Antony Garrard Newton

HITCHIN, Neil

KERRIGAN, John

LAFFITTE-LARNAUDIE, Anne-Marie
LATTÈS, Nicole

MALIK, Teresa
McMILLAN, James A
MELANDRI, Pierre
MOLLOY, Molly
MONOD, Sylvère
MÜLLER, Hans-Harald
MYLNE, Vivienne

OZANAM, Yves

PEARLSTINE, Maggie
POO, Nicoletta

REVEL, Jean-François
REYNOLDS, Barbara
RUSBRIDGER, Alan Charles

SAVILLE, Amanda
SEN, Amartya

TOMBS, Robert

WOLTON, Thierry
WRIGLEY, Tony

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REVIEWS